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Since 1994, Educa A.C., as a civil organization, accompanies social movements, advises social organizations and indigenous communities in the defense of their social and civil rights, promotes civil and political education, advocates for the integral protection of human rights, and initiates projects of sustainable, rural development in the state of Oaxaca. As part of our strategy to promote civil and political education, we translate some of our publications into English and founded the Twitter account “Human Rights Oaxaca Mexico” to address an international audience. In the globalized world, we live in, today’s problems need to be viewed from different perspectives in order, to be solved. Therefore our work in English intends to give Oaxaca’s civil society a voice, create awareness and promote public dialogue. We cover topics such as social movements, gender and migration violence, territorial and environmental conflicts, indigenous resistance against transnational megaprojects, as well as other current issues Oaxaca’s civil society finds itself confronted with.

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Oaxaca’s Feminist Rapper: Mare Advertencia Lirika English

Oaxaca’s Feminist Rapper: Mare Advertencia Lirika

Mare Advertencia Lirika is a Zapotec Hip Hop artist from Oaxaca, Mexico whose music speaks out for the rights of indigenous women. Now 27, Lírikan began rapping at age 16, using her lyrics to challenge sexism in her own community and call out the Mexican state for its abysmal treatment of indigenous communities.  In this Animal Politico interview, the self-identified feminist shares that “Rap…
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22 enero, 2015
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URGENT ACTION: Indigenous Community Harassed for Activism English

URGENT ACTION: Indigenous Community Harassed for Activism

Indigenous leaders and other members of their community have been intimidated and harassed in reprisal for opposing the construction of a new wind farm in the Tehuantepec Isthmus in southern Mexico. There is fear they will face further threats. Members of the Popular Assembly for the Community of Juchiteco (Asamblea Popular del Pueblo Juchiteco, APPJ), an organization of Indigenous peoples…
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15 diciembre, 2014
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Parents of Jyri Jaakkola visit Mexico for fifth time to demand justice English

Parents of Jyri Jaakkola visit Mexico for fifth time to demand justice

On the 5th November, Eve y Raimo Jaakkola, parents of the Finnish activist Jyri Jaakkola, carried out their fifth visit to Mexico to meet Mexican authorities and demand punishment for those responsible for the murder of their son and of Bety Cariño, who died in an ambush in April 2010 conducted by a paramilitary group in San Juan Copala, Oaxaca. …
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11 diciembre, 2014
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Civil Mission reports violation of right to consultation for wind-energy project English

Civil Mission reports violation of right to consultation for wind-energy project

Three non-governmental organizations-the Project for Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ProDESC); the Project for Organization, Development, Education, and Investigation (PODER); and the Gobixha AC Committee for Comprehensive Defense of Human Rights (Código DH)-were present during the preliminary accords for the consultation process regarding the installation of a wind-energy project in Juchitán, Oaxaca. In a first report, they reported that there were “violations against…
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11 diciembre, 2014
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Teachers Union Demand Liberation of Comrades Held Hostage in Oaxaca English

Teachers Union Demand Liberation of Comrades Held Hostage in Oaxaca

Teachers belonging to Section 22 of the National Union of Education Workers have been blocking a local highway since Wednesday, demanding the liberation of their comrades who are being held hostage by residents of the Tortuguero community and an anti-striking faction in central Oaxaca.   The Mexican state secretary of public safety reported that around 700 vehicles were stranded in the stretch…
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5 diciembre, 2014
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In Oaxaca, Caravan of Central American Mothers call for Solidarity English

In Oaxaca, Caravan of Central American Mothers call for Solidarity

The central plaza of Oaxaca is plastered with posters and banners denouncing one atrocity after another, the layers of social movements overlapping on every wall available. Ayotzinapa, the struggle of the Section 22 teachers union, the recent murder of a teenage girl. In this cacophony of protest, on Nov. 30, the Caravan of Central American Mothers Searching for their Disappeared…
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4 diciembre, 2014
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#USTIRED2: 43 U.S. cities demand an end to drug war funding English

#USTIRED2: 43 U.S. cities demand an end to drug war funding

Today, on Wednesday December 3, over 43 U.S. cities will participate in an unprecedented national mobilization to demand an end to the deadly “Plan Mexico,” a billion-dollar program to aid Mexico’s corrupt and notoriously violent security forces, ostensibly in their fight against the so-called War on Drugs.   In the wake of the massive human rights crisis in Mexico that…
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3 diciembre, 2014